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Wednesday, June 24th, 2020
| Time |
Event |
| 3:06p |
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by CentOS (kernel, ntp, and unbound), Fedora (php-horde-horde and tcpreplay), openSUSE (chromium, java-1_8_0-openj9, mozilla-nspr, mozilla-nss, and opera), Oracle (gnutls, grafana, thunderbird, and unbound), Red Hat (candlepin and satellite, docker, microcode_ctl, openstack-keystone, openstack-manila and openstack-manila, and qemu-kvm-rhev), Scientific Linux (kernel and ntp), Slackware (ntp), SUSE (curl, libreoffice, libssh2_org, and php5), and Ubuntu (curl). | | 5:14p |
Perl 7 launches The Perl project has announced the upcoming release of Perl 7. Unlike Perl 6, though, this is not a radical departure, yet at least: " Perl 7.0 is going to be v5.32 but
with different, saner, more modern defaults. You won’t have to enable most
of the things you are already doing because they are enabled for you. The
major version jump sets the boundary between how we have been doing things
and what we can do in the future." The plan is to have a Perl 7 release " within the next
year". | | 6:12p |
[$] Open-source contact tracing, part 1
One of the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic consists of identifying
contacts of infected people so they can be informed about the risk; that will allow them
to search for medical care, if needed. This is laborious work if it is done
manually, so a number of applications have been developed to help with
contact tracing. But they are causing debates about their effectiveness and
privacy impacts. Many of the applications were released under open-source
licenses. Here, we look at the
principles of these applications and the software frameworks used to build them;
part two will look into some applications in more detail,
along with the controversies (especially related to privacy) around these tools. | | 8:17p |
[$] More alternatives to Google Analytics Last week, we introduced the privacy concerns with using Google Analytics (GA) and presented two lightweight open-source options: GoatCounter and Plausible. Those tools are useful for site owners who need relatively basic metrics. In this second article, we present several heavier-weight GA replacements for those who need more detailed analytics. We also look at some tools that produce analytics data based on web-server-access logs, GoAccess, in particular. |
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